What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. William Shakespeare Age, Aging, Middle Age You May Also Like You’re not as young as you used to be / But you’re not as old as you’re going to be / So watch it! By Irish saying Age, Aging, Old age I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. By Lady Nancy Astor (attrib.) Age, Aging, Funny, Middle Age No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book. By Cyril Connolly Age, Aging, Middle Age, Wisdom I don’t care how old you get, I think a woman ought to stay sexy for her husband. By Tammy Faye Bakker Age, Aging, Middle Age Lord, lord! How subject we old men are to this vice of lying. By William Shakespeare Age, Aging, Old age We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.” By Sydney J. Harris Age, Aging, Middle Age, Responsibility You May Also Like from William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. By William Shakespeare Children, Family, Gratitude The miserable have no other medicine / But only hope. By William Shakespeare Hope Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. By William Shakespeare Grief, Sad To sleep, perchance to dream. By William Shakespeare Dreams, Rest, Sleep … brevity is the soul of wit. By William Shakespeare Genius, Wit How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes! By William Shakespeare Happiness, Unhappiness
You’re not as young as you used to be / But you’re not as old as you’re going to be / So watch it! By Irish saying Age, Aging, Old age
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. By Lady Nancy Astor (attrib.) Age, Aging, Funny, Middle Age
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book. By Cyril Connolly Age, Aging, Middle Age, Wisdom
I don’t care how old you get, I think a woman ought to stay sexy for her husband. By Tammy Faye Bakker Age, Aging, Middle Age
Lord, lord! How subject we old men are to this vice of lying. By William Shakespeare Age, Aging, Old age
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.” By Sydney J. Harris Age, Aging, Middle Age, Responsibility
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. By William Shakespeare Children, Family, Gratitude
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. By William Shakespeare Grief, Sad
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes! By William Shakespeare Happiness, Unhappiness
